Botswana

Your eye-opening Botswana safari showcases the staggering beauty of the Kalahari Dessert and the Okavango Delta, not to mention elephants, hippos, lions, buffalo, leopards, cheetahs and more, as you travel in the company of an expert leader and small group of like-minded adventurers. Throughout your Botswana safari tour, you’ll trek in the mainstream and off the beaten bath, staying at classic tented camps reminiscent of the glamour age of travel, with expansive wildlife reserves, mopane forests and rich, green floodplains as your backyard. Expert naturalist Lex Hes joins many of our Botswana safaris, bringing a naturalist expert’s insights into your wildlife viewing and photography experiences. Travel as a fully engaged explorer rather than a casual observer throughout your Botswana safari, making it both a life-affirming and life-changing vacation.

Southern Africa's Diversity: Namibia, Botswana, Zambia

February 12 — March 3, 2016

Visit some of Africa’s most remote and diverse camps with expert naturalist Lex Hes, from the elephants of Damaraland and the Himba people of Namibia to the leopards of South Luangwa National Park and the lush Okavango Delta.

Ultimate Botswana

March 21 — April 6, 2016

The epitome of wild Africa, Botswana is home to lions, cheetahs and elephants—explore the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta by day, relaxing in classic tented camps in a diversity of landscapes by night.

We are thrilled to announce our 2015 expedition line-up! Our founders, field directors, and program managers have crafted 39 unique adventures for the 2015 season, with itineraries spanning all seven continents.

Our Ultimate Botswana Eco-Expedition arrived at Chitabe camp in the Okavango Delta of Botswana on August 26, 2010. After settling into camp we set off on our first afternoon drive, which was to be more of an exploratory drive than anything else. Little did we know how quickly things would change!

Legadima, a Setswana word meaning “lightning,” is the name of a five-year-old adult female leopard that lives at Mombo in the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. Guides and visitors have been watching her since she was a tiny little cub less than two weeks old.

For those of you who have traveled with me before, I sincerely hope that you enjoyed seeing our little bit of Africa at a very different time of year—the Mombo and DumaTau brought back some happy memories and, of course, created new ones.

Keeping with our singular experience theme, we saw thousands of zebras on the plains of the Kalahari. This is something that I personally have never seen before because our safari regularly arrives there a month earlier than the arrival of the migration. Another new experience for me was observing elephants gathering in and around camp, as well as seeing a red hartebeest.

On our small-group expedition through Botswana, we enjoyed many mammal highlights: hyenas feeding on a leopard’s kudu kill at Chitabe, a morning spent with a male and female leopard at Mombo and then the subsequent discovery of her little cubs, a lot of time spent with two male lions when they were separated and eventually found each other and walked off together.

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At Zegrahm we offer a unique line-up of expeditions each year. Please let us know if you'd like to be notified the next time we add a departure to this region and we will be sure you are the first to know.

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